Russia men's national artistic gymnastics team

The Russia men's national artistic gymnastics team represents Russia in FIG international competitions. Additionally they have competed as the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and the Russian Gymnastics Federation (RGF) due to the World Anti-Doping Agency banning athletes from representing Russia in international competition.^[1]

Russia men's national gymnastics team

Continental union	European Union of Gymnastics
National federation	Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia
Olympic Games
Appearances	7
Medals	Gold: 1996, 2020 Silver: 2016 Bronze: 2000
World Championships
Appearances	14
Medals	Gold: 2019 Silver: 1994, 1999, 2006, 2018 Bronze: 1997
Junior World Championships
Appearances	1

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) barred Russian athletes and officials, including judges.^[2] It also announced that "all FIG World Cup and World Challenge Cup events planned to take place in Russia ... are cancelled, and no other FIG events will be allocated to Russia ... until further notice." FIG also banned the Russian flag at its events.^[3] European Gymnastics announced in March 2022 that no athletes, officials, and judges from the Russian Gymnastics Federation can participate in any European Gymnastics events, that no European Gymnastics authorities from Russia can pursue their functions, and that European Gymnastics had removed from its calendar all events allocated to Russia and would not allocate any future events to Russia.^[4][5][6]

History

Russia has made seven appearances in the men's team competition at the Olympic Games and has won four medals. They won gold twice – first at their debut in 1996^[7] and then again in 2020.^[8]

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) barred Russian athletes and officials, including judges.^[9] It also announced that "all FIG World Cup and World Challenge Cup events planned to take place in Russia ... are cancelled, and no other FIG events will be allocated to Russia ... until further notice." FIG also banned the Russian flag at its events.^[10]

2023 senior roster

Name	Birthdate and age	District represented
Denis Ablyazin	(1992-08-03) 3 August 1992 (age 32)	Volga
David Belyavskiy (captain)	(1992-02-23) 23 February 1992 (age 32)	Ural
Artur Dalaloyan	(1996-04-26) 26 April 1996 (age 28)	Moscow
Ivan Zavrichko	(2004-01-28) 28 January 2004 (age 20)	Moscow
Viktor Kalyuzhin	(2001-05-09) 9 May 2001 (age 23)	Northwestern
Aleksandr Kartsev	(2001-12-31) 31 December 2001 (age 22)	Central
Evgeni Kisel	(2005-01-15) 15 January 2005 (age 19)	Moscow
Grigorii Klimentev	(2000-12-13) 13 December 2000 (age 23)	Northwestern
Daniel Marinov	(2004-12-17) 17 December 2004 (age 19)	Volga
Nikita Nagornyy	(1997-02-12) 12 February 1997 (age 27)	Moscow
Sergei Naidin	(2001-07-11) 11 July 2001 (age 23)	Siberia
Daniil Novikov	(2006-01-17) 17 January 2006 (age 18)	Volga
Kirill Prokopiev	(1994-01-30) 30 January 1994 (age 30)	Central
Mukhammadzhon Yakubov	(2003-04-17) 17 April 2003 (age 21)	Central

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2023 Junior roster

Name	Birthdate and age	District represented
Artem Ablasovich	(2007-10-25) 25 October 2007 (age 16)	Central
Matvey Akinshin	(2007-09-20) 20 September 2007 (age 17)	Central
Timofey Akinshin	(2007-09-20) 20 September 2007 (age 17)	Central
Aleksandr Vasylev	(2009-09-08) 8 September 2009 (age 15)	Central
Vyacheslav Vitkov	(2006-09-16) 16 September 2006 (age 18)	Northwestern
Arseniy Dukhno	(2008-08-05) 5 August 2008 (age 16)	Moscow
Aleksandr Zhigalov	(2006-04-05) 5 April 2006 (age 18)	Volga
Vsevolod Korotkov	(2007-03-01) 1 March 2007 (age 17)	Central
Ilya Musin	(2008-02-06) 6 February 2008 (age 16)	Central
Evgeni Polennikov	(2008-02-07) 7 February 2008 (age 16)	Central
Daniil Smirnov	(2008-11-24) 24 November 2008 (age 15)	Northwestern
Egor Sukov	(2008-02-04) 4 February 2008 (age 16)	Central
Parviz Sultonov	(2008-07-28) 28 July 2008 (age 16)	Central
Yaroslav Sukharev	(2008-11-12) 12 November 2008 (age 15)	Moscow

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Team competition results

Olympic Games

• 1928 through 1992 — participated as the Soviet Union
• 1996 — gold medal

  Alexei Nemov, Alexei Voropaev, Yevgeni Podgorny, Dmitri Vasilenko, Sergei Kharkov, Nikolai Kryukov, Dmitri Trush

• 2000 — bronze medal

  Alexei Nemov, Maxim Aleshin, Alexei Bondarenko, Nikolai Kryukov, Yevgeni Podgorny, Dmitri Drevin

• 2004 — 6th place

  Aleksei Bondarenko, Maxim Deviatovski, Anton Golotsutskov, Georgi Grebenkov, Aleksei Nemov, Aleksander Safoshkin

• 2008 — 6th place

  Maxim Devyatovsky, Anton Golotsutskov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Nikolai Kryukov, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Yuri Ryazanov

• 2012 — 6th place

  Denis Ablyazin, Aleksandr Balandin, David Belyavskiy, Emin Garibov, Igor Pakhomenko

• 2016 — silver medal

  Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Ivan Stretovich, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Nikita Nagornyy

• 2020 — gold medal – participated as the Russian Olympic Committee

  Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Artur Dalaloyan, Nikita Nagornyy

• 2024 – banned from participating as a team ^[12]

World Championships

See also: Russia at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

• 1934 through 1991 — participated as the Soviet Union
• 1994 — silver medal

  Evgeni Chabaev, Evgeni Joukov, Dmitri Karbanenko, Alexei Nemov, Dmitri Trush, Dmitri Vasilenko, Alexei Voropaev

• 1995 — 4th place

  Dmitri Karbanenko, Evgeni Chabaev, Alexei Voropaev, Alexei Nemov, Dmitri Vasilenko, Evgeni Podgorni

• 1997 — bronze medal

  Dmitri Vasilenko, Alexei Bondarenko, Alexei Voropaev, Alexei Nemov, Evgeni Ghukov, Nikolai Kryukov

• 1999 — silver medal

  Alexei Bondarenko, Nikolai Kryukov, Alexei Nemov, Maxim Aleshin, Rashid Kasumov, Evgeni Podgorni

• 2001 — 7th place

  Alexei Bondarenko, Alexei Nemov, Georgy Grebenkov, Evgeny Krylov, Nikolai Kryukov, Yury Tikhonovsky

• 2003 — 4th place

  Alexei Bondarenko, Alexei Nemov, Anton Golotsutskov, Evgeny Podgorny, Nikolai Kryukov

• 2006 — silver medal

  Maxim Deviatovski, Dimitri Gogotov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Nikolai Kryukov, Yury Ryazanov, Alexander Safoshkin

• 2007 — 7th place

  Yuri Ryazanov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Maxim Devyatovsky, Nikolai Kryukov, Alexander Safoshkin

• 2010 — 6th place

  Sergey Khorokhordin, Maxim Devyatovskiy, David Belyavskiy, Anton Golotsutskov, Igor Pakhomenko, Andrey Cherkasov

• 2011 — 4th place

  Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Emin Garibov, Sergei Khorokhordin, David Belyavskiy, Denis Ablyazin, Anton Golotsutskov

• 2014 — 5th place

  Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Nikita Ignatyev, Daniil Kazachkov, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Ivan Stretovich

• 2015 – 4th place

  Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Nikita Ignatyev, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Nikita Nagornyy, Ivan Stretovich

• 2018 — silver medal

  David Belyavskiy, Artur Dalaloyan, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Dmitrii Lankin, Nikita Nagornyy, Vladislav Polyashov

• 2019 — gold medal

  Denis Ablyazin, David Belyavskiy, Artur Dalaloyan, Nikita Nagornyy, Ivan Stretovich, Vladislav Polyashov

• 2022 – banned from participating ^[13]
• 2023 – banned from participating ^[14]

Junior World Championships

• 2019 — 9th place

  Kirill Gashkov, Ivan Gerget, Ivan Kuliak

Most decorated gymnasts

This list includes all Russian male artistic gymnasts who have won at least four medals at the Olympic Games and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships combined. Not included are medals won as part of the Soviet Union or Unified Teams.

Rank	Gymnast	Years	Team	AA	FX	PH	SR	VT	PB	HB	Olympic Total	World Total	Total
1	Alexei Nemov	1993–2004	1996 2000 1994 1999 1997	2000 1996	2000 1996 1997 1999	1996 2000 1999 1996		1996 1995 1996	2000 1996 2003 1994	2000 1996 2003	12	13	25
2	Denis Ablyazin	2012–2021	2020 2016 2019		2012 2014		2016 2017 2014	2012 2016 2020			7	4	11
3	Artur Dalaloyan	2018–2021	2020 2019 2018	2018 2019	2018			2018 2019	2018	2019	1	9	10
4	Nikita Nagornyy	2016–2021	2020 2016 2019 2018	2020 2019 2018				2019		2020	4	5	9
5	Nikolai Kryukov	1996–2006	1996 2000 1999 2006 1997	1999	1999 2003			1997			2	7	9
6	David Belyavskiy	2016–2021	2020 2016 2019 2018			2017			2016 2017		3	4	7
7	Alexei Bondarenko	1997–2000	2000 1999 1997	1997				2000	1999		2	4	6
8	Anton Golotsutskov	2008–2011			2008			2008 2010 2011 2009			2	3	5

See also

• Round Lake (gymnastics)
• Russia women's national gymnastics team
• List of Olympic male artistic gymnasts for Russia

References

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